topic RE: EWS Mail objects in Digital Exchange

EWS Mail objects

AnthonyMullen — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 20:48:00 GMT

HI all
I am new to RPA and new to community. I have experience in C# development but I have been given responsibility of RPA using Blue prism.

My first task is to migrate a process from reading mails from an on prem Mail service to a cloud Mail service.

The objects that the current process is using is EWS Mail Object. I have searched for documentation on how to use these objects but I cannot find anything online.

Can anyone help me with this please?

The object takes 4 parameters, username, password, Mail ID and url of web mail address

Thanks in advance for help on this

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Anthony Mullen
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RE: EWS Mail objects

BohyonHwang — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 04:10:00 GMT

@AndreyKudinov seems to be the developer of EWS.
You can find his github project on GitHub - aikudinov/BlueprismVBO: Blueprism VBO collection.
It'd be nice to contact him.

You have experienced in C# development, as you said.
Then you may look into code stage in each Action page of the VBO.
They are coded using C# and you must be familiar with them.

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RE: EWS Mail objects

AnthonyMullen — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:59:00 GMT

Hi

thank you for this information.

Where did you find this information out for future reference?

Thanks in advance

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Anthony Mullen
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RE: EWS Mail objects

AlhanaStarbreez — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 11:59:00 GMT

EWS VBO on DX and EWS VBO on github are different, which one are we talking about?

First one should support cloud afaik. Second one is onprem only, and although it should be possible to make it work with oauth2, EWS managed api itself is deprecated and you'd better use Graph api I guess.

p.s. Andrey Kudinov is not going to reply here, since blueprism decided to block russian accounts. You can try contacting him on github issues, but I doubt they use Blueprism now.

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RE: EWS Mail objects

AnthonyMullen — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:06:00 GMT

Hi,

The use case I am having is that a process we have is using the ON PREM one however we are moving to cloud so would prob need the first one you are talking about.
Can you help me on how I would access the VBO on DX please?

Thanks in advance

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Anthony Mullen
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RE: EWS Mail objects

AlhanaStarbreez — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:14:00 GMT

Search for: Agilify Exchange on DX / community

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Alhana Starbreeze
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RE: EWS Mail objects

AnthonyMullen — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:36:00 GMT

HI

Thank you for this but I cannot find anything here.

I have done some research and I see Basic Auth is not supported with outlook EWS anymore so I need to use OAuth 2. Is there a VBO for this functionality that you know of?

Thanks in advance

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Anthony Mullen
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RE: EWS Mail objects

AnthonyMullen — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 10:46:00 GMT

Hi all

I got a solution for this. I will use MS Outlook VBO.
Thanks all for your help on this and from my experience here I would advise anyone else in this situation NOT to use EWS as this will eventually be fully deprecated by microsoft.

Thanks all

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Anthony Mullen
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RE: EWS Mail objects

BohyonHwang — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:19:00 GMT

Good!
Thank you.

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RE: EWS Mail objects

AlhanaStarbreez — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:30:00 GMT

EWS is still a good option for Exchange on-premise if you don't want to depend on Outlook.

For an Office365 it is advised to use Graph API:

https://zimmergren.net/sending-e-mails-using-microsoft-graph-using-dotnet/#get-full-e-mail-and-inbox-capabilities

BP DX has VBO for this: https://digitalexchange.blueprism.com/dx/entry/3439/solution/microsoft-office-365---outlook

MS Outlook VBO (interop) is a good option in both cases too, although a bit slower and has to be exclusive run mode afaik.

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Alhana Starbreeze
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RE: EWS Mail objects

AnthonyMullen — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:43:00 GMT

Hi @AlhanaStarbreez

Thanks for this. Yes I tried GRAPH API and very good but it is not supported by Blue prism so my org wont approve.

On another note I did have issues with MS Outlook but fixed now but could you explaine the "excluesive run mode" you mentioned above? Or point me to articel about this?

Thanks in advance

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Anthony Mullen
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RE: EWS Mail objects

AlhanaStarbreez — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:57:00 GMT

Exclusive run mode means that process/VBO can't run at the same time with other process on the same bot.
Here is video by Dave about it: RUN MODES in Blue Prism

p.s. Blueprism mostly marks all their VBOs as exclusive regardless, whether it is needed or not, so you wont be using it, unless you fix it yourself and know what you are doing.

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